[TriLUG] Floppy Lag

[Brian Henning]

Absolutely unauthoritative response: Sounds like a deferred write, which is
often used to improve immediate performance (your application doesn't block
while waiting for the device)..  I've seen removable media get totally
trashed (under Windows) because of this, when a person performs a manual
hardware-eject (i.e. push the eject button) and insert different media
before the deferred write occurs..  I don't think Windows uses deferred
writes for floppies, but maybe Sarge does?  Maybe there's a mount option to
disable deferred writes?  That strikes me as a rediculously long
defer-time..

Cheers,
~Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason S. Evans" <theologygeek at gmail.com>
To: "TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:39 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] Floppy Lag


> When I save data to a floppy, my pc says that it is instantly done,
> but the drive doesn't actually start writing to the floppy until 30 to
> 45 seconds after I save.  Is this normal or some strange quirk with
> the 2.6 kernel?  I am running Debian Sarge.
>
> Jason
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